Autonomous system
AS8941 MRSU-AS
Education RIPE
Summary
Mordovian State University
education university legacy
MRSU-AS belongs to N. P. Ogarev's Mordovian State University (МГУ им. Н. П. Огарёва) in Saransk, the capital of the Republic of Mordovia. It is one of Russia's regional national research universities, and the AS carries the campus network run by the university's own Internet Center.
What it's used for
- Campus connectivity for faculties, research units, libraries and student services across the Saransk campuses.
- Public-facing university services. The rDNS that exists lands on university hosts such as
pay.mrsu.ru, the payment portal, under the university's ownmrsu.rudomain.
Notable
- The registry objects are unambiguous institutional ones: the organisation is the university itself, and the administrative and technical contacts sit in the "Internet Center, N. P. Ogarev's Mordovian State University" on Bolshevistskaya street in Saransk.
- Roughly 2,000 IPv4 addresses across a handful of prefixes, with only a couple of BGP neighbours. That is the shape of a single campus buying transit from regional providers, not a network that sells connectivity onward.
- Most of the space carries no delegated rDNS, which is common for a campus that numbers its internal estate behind NAT and exposes only a few named services.
Interesting
- One of the administrative contacts is registered to "fond Mordovia - Internet" — a regional internet foundation, a reminder that early Russian university networking was often organised through regional academic funds rather than the institutions alone.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8941- Registry name
- MRSU-AS
- Registrant
- MRSU-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@mrsu.ru
- Registered
- 2006-11-16
- Last changed
- 2026-01-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 71% valid · 5 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS8941
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS8941
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere